The leading suspect in the hacking case of Ashley Madison, a dating site for married people, died a year before the incident
SNS & dating site for married people 'Ashley Madison (Ashley Madison)', which uses a catchphrase with a preeminent impact, 'Once in a lifetime. Let's have an affair', was hacked in 2015 and 37 million individuals Information is stolen. At this time, Mr. Noel Biderman, CEO at the time, was anonymously blaming a specific person, but the leading suspect died a year before the hacking incident occurred, security site・Krebs on Security revealed.
Top Suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison Hack Committed Suicide in 2014 – Krebs on Security
Ashley Madison was founded in 2001. In 2013, we expanded to Japan. The hacking incident occurred in July 2015, and the personal information of 37 million members was stolen. The culprit has not been clarified since then, but CEO Biderman told Krebs on Security at the time that he was not an employee, but he was definitely in contact with our technical service. I am referring to
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The documentary ' The Ashley Madison Affair ', which approaches this incident, has been distributed on Hulu in the United States and Disney + in the United Kingdom.
'The Ashley Madison Affair' | Official Trailer | Hulu-YouTube
The show will include 'shocking new information' revealed by Krebs on Security and data scientist Jeremy Brook, some of which Krebs On Security's Brian Krebs revealed on his blog. I'm here.
Krebs on Security published a memoir of this Ashley Madison case in July 2022. In this article, seven years after the incident, Mr. Krebs again dug up information on cyber crime forums and far-right sites at the time, and found that CEO Biderman, who is Jewish, was accused of harassment by anti-Semitic groups and far-right groups. I figured out what was being targeted.
A Retrospective on the 2015 Ashley Madison Breach – Krebs on Security
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/07/a-retrospective-on-the-2015-ashley-madison-breach/
After the July 2022 article was published, Wall to Wall Media, a production company under Warner Bros., approached Mr. Krebs about collaborating with Mr. Brooke.
Brooke combed through hundreds of thousands of emails, many of which were in Biderman's inbox purporting to be former Ashley Madison employee and aggressive anti-Semite William Brewster Harrison. I found that it belonged to a person.
Harrison was hired in March 2010 as a PR representative. At the same time, it is known that he was deeply involved in creating and cultivating fake female accounts that existed in many Ashley Madisons. There is also evidence to suggest that Mr. Harrison was harassing Ashley Madison's anti-site 'Ashleymadisonsucks.com' and asking him to sell the domain to Ashley Madison.
'AshleyMadisonSucks.com' was operated by a man named Dennis Bradshaw. Ashley Madison, who filed a trademark infringement, proposed to buy the domain for $ 10,000 (about 140 million yen) because Canadian trademark law did not reach Mr. Bradshaw. However, when Mr. Bradshaw refused to sell, Mr. Harrison used a free email address to impersonate Mr. Bradshaw, his girlfriend, and friends to harass and threaten.
Harrison uses the site Contact-a-CEO.com to disparage the companies he used to work for and all groups that disrespected him and his family. It also posted information about Bradshaw's lawyer and his wife.
Screenshot of 'Contact-a-CEO.com' shown by Krebs
Among other domains that Mr. Harrison registered under a pseudonym, 'Bash-a-Business.com' is said to be 'The Chaos Creator' who is 'dedicated to the unfortunate corporate executives of the world'. The existence of the site has also been confirmed.
After Ashley Madison was fired in November 2011, Mr. Harrison used his skills to the fullest to harass Ashley Madison.
In August 2012, when ex-sex worker and activist Maggie McNeill used screenshots to expose the 'army of fake female accounts,' Ashley Madison executives said there were only a handful of images available. immediately create a list of authorized employees. Then, it turned out that Mr. Harrison's access rights remained with the obvious dummy address '[email protected]'.
Mr. Harrison described CEO Biderman as a ``greedy Jewish bastard'' and said, ``I wish you good luck.I think I will talk to you soon, but I put something better in the oven. was sent. Other emails show that Harrison targeted CEO Biderman and other executives with attacks such as anonymous threatening emails and spoofed phone calls.
However, Mr. Harrison said that he committed suicide with a handgun on March 5, 2014. This fact was 'obviously unknown' to Biderman and other executives after the hack, Krebs said.
In addition, whether this will be excluded from the suspects of the incident, who is the 'creator of chaos', and what happened between Mr. Harrison and Ashley Madison before he died will be released at a later date will be revealed in the article.
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